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I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

— Marvin Minsky

We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And…

— Esther Dyson

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

— Paul Dourish

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the…

— Sam Wyly

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines,…

— Michael Swanwick

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

— Paul Allen

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

— Tom Clancy

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been…

— Rodney Brooks

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies…

— Paul Saffo

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics…

— Jack Kilby